Night of the Creeps 4K 1986 Ultra HD 2160p

Storyline
In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the corpse, which proceeds to infect the campus with parasites that transform their hosts into killer zombies.

User Review

The plot is initially curious: everything started with aliens on a spaceship, then on our planet in the fifties with a murderous maniac with an axe in his hands from a fire shield, then in our days (mid 80's) zombies and at the end a mountain of dangerous slugs.

If to consider the movie more deeply, the fact that the full-fledged action of horror and fight against it comes only closer to the climax, somewhere near the very finale, comes out. It will be interesting: shooting zombies, burning slugs, and even a reanimated maniac, who has been in the ground for several decades, will find a place with his axe. The scenes of apogee are equipped with memorable grotesque in the form of a couple: a guy tearing zombie heads with a shotgun, from which slimy creatures fly out, and his girlfriend in a white dress and with... a flamethrower behind his back!

In general, this movie is completely youthful. It is another representative of its time and direction, this bright (the makeup of aliens, infected and the splatter effect - excellent) jokingly unpretentious comedy horror movie. The underlying humor is similar to Dan O'Bannon's “Return of the Living Dead”; there are a couple of interesting finds of a similar tendency, such as the scene where the zombified animated corpse without clothes follows the corridor, and the guard-police officer without raising his head from his notebook says hello to him in passing and moves on.

It's also impossible not to point out the very similarities with Rodriguez's subsequent work in the genre, “The Faculty”; these two films are akin to one another.

The very initial concept is based on the eternal theme of young people living on college campuses, their gender relations, joining fraternities, and of course, drinking and partying. It turns out that most of the first half of the movie before the viewer will be mostly just that, with light jokes and twists. The actors play at an average level, but in principle to expect much from the entertaining story about teenagers, faced with zombies and alien creatures-slugs is a thankless and deliberately stupid thing. It is only a fun for an hour and a half, therefore it is required not to bother your heads too much with a few inconsistencies or possible bloopers in the script. However, there is a small dramatic line in the story with a police detective tormenting himself over a bygone incident from his life's past. This adult character slightly weighted down by his history against a background of youth is a nice contrasting image to alternate with the simple superficial shots of student life.

As I mentioned above, the makeup is well done, which makes the viewer's anticipation for another curious zombie fight scene, where one day a lawnmower will also be used! The scenery of narrow corridors and living quarters, favorably framed by the cameraman's perspective, is similar to it. The scene with the sharply crawling slugs and the guy on crutches in the toilet stall is particularly well edited.

When considering the unfortunate moments, they carry a decent number, creating a counterbalance to the favorable finds. First up is, once again, the drawn out suspense of the zombie invasion right up to the very finale. Secondly, there is humor, but not particularly outstanding, it is rather secondary in the basis, as well as the unoriginal core of characters in the picture: a depressed burned-out cop, a couple of losers-students, a local beauty, a nerdy girl in glasses, a group of pompous heads of the fraternity, always (right in every frame with him) chewing a hamburger policeman on the background of the next found victim - do you agree that such a set of characters has already been somewhere somewhere once brought out by someone else before?

There's also the fragility of the narrative. Judge for yourself, in the beginning there is an intriguing plot with a shootout of humanoid aliens between each other in space, and then it is replaced by black-and-white shots of history on Earth, which last not so little and it is not clear why such a second prologue was needed. The timing seems to be torn into two sections, when the first one (in the 50s) is only necessary to explain the infected corpse in the laboratory and only that. And when before the very credits there will be a hint on a global zombie epidemic, here you inevitably ask a question to the creators of the picture: was it impossible to give a large-scale spectacle from the very beginning, and not to postpone it for aftertaste?

In the end, if to summarize an objective view, this movie is not badly in step with the rest of its counterparts of those years, it can already be considered a kind of a classic of comedy youth horrors of the eighties with a decent spectacle, while having a few unbalanced moments in the plot and tact of action. If to touch upon my purely subjective opinion, the opus “Night of the Creeps” (earlier on VHS tapes translated as “Night of the Creeps”) is another example of its subgenre, which for my generation (and older) can cause something like pleasant nostalgia about the past times when watching it.

Info Video

Codec: HEVC / H.265 (80.2 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1

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#English: FLAC 2.0
#English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
#French: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0

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